Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] network: add static route support

[Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/29/14 at 02:20pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 05/27/14 at 02:25pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 05/22/14 at 03:33pm, Dave Young wrote:
> > > On 05/05/14 at 03:12pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, Baoquan
> > > 
> > > The route-$netif is supposed in 1st kernel filesystem. Can we passing the
> > > detail ip/netmask/gw for specific nic in kernel cmdline instead of copy
> > > the route file in initramfs? In that way we can avoid this dracut fix.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if it works for the complicate route setup though.
> > 
> > I am not sure, it had better handle the route during setup net. I want
> > to hear what Harald will say. He is more familiar with this.
> 
> Ok, the route table item must be a line like "192.168.100.1 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo  metric 203"
> 
> If passing them via cmdline we need quote it with some special character and append
> it to the ip= cmdline param
> 
> The other way is copy the route file to /etc/ in initramfs like you are doing.
> But we did need the functions to handle the static route.
> 
> So leave to Harald about the interface. 

Harald, what do you prefer to passing static route item to initramfs?
Do you have beeter idea in mind?

Thanks
Dave